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suwingben's avatar
suwingben
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15 years ago

Database Driven Sites?

The title might not even be correct for my question, but I don't know any other way to describe it. The sites I'm testing are all database driven asp site, meaning that content is pulled from the database and then shown to the user. Not every site has the same name, but they do have similar content between them;some even the same content.



The pages all flow the same and have the same styling and everything, just slightly differing content between the databases.



When I record a test it applies page specific identifiers to the pages. Would I be able to run those same cases against a differently named page from a different database with similar content? Or would I be forced to stick to the one database when it comes to this kind of testing.







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  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    It is possible.  It means, though, that you're going to have to make your object identifications "smarter" using a number of techniques either through NameMapping or using FindChild/FindAllChildren methods.
  • Amazing! Thank you so much sir. I get the feeling name mapping will be the crux of all of the trouble I'm having.